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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.

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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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